India: Today’s news in pictures

Aug 24, 2018 16:39 IST

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Rohan Bopanna (L) and Divij Sharan (R) clinched another medal for India at the Asian Games 2018 and the first one in tennis, winning the gold medal after beating the Kazakhstan pair of Aleksandr Bublik and Denis Yevseyev. They cruised to a 6-3, 6-4 win in just 52 minutes. (Edgar Su / REUTERS)

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Women perform rituals during prayers to the Hindu deity Lakshmi at a temple in Hyderabad. Varalakshmi Vratham is celebrated on the Friday that precedes the full moon day of the Sravana month, as married women pray for the well being of their family members. (Noah Seelam / AFP)

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On Friday, the Jharkhand high court rejected ailing Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad’s plea for extension of provisional bail period for another three months and asked him to surrender by August 30. (PTI)

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Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman visits the flood-affected areas to review situation in Kodagu. “I am a member of Parliament from Karnataka. I want to offer Rs.1 crore of my MPLAD (Members of Parliament Local Area Development) for Kodagu district,” she said. (PTI)

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The Supreme Court on Friday reserved its verdict on a batch of pleas related to the issue of live streaming of court proceedings. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud said it would pass appropriate orders after Attorney General K K Venugopal suggested that live streaming of the important cases in the Chief Justice’s court can be started on a pilot basis. (Adnan Abidi / REUTERS File)

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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) again questioned former Finance Minister P Chidambaram in the Aircel-Maxis money laundering case, officials said. Chidambaram, after a similar questioning by the ED in this case in June, had said that what he told the agency was already recorded in government documents. He also said that there is no FIR, yet a probe had been initiated. (Raj K Raj / HT Photo)

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Delhi BJP supporters and workers take out a procession as part of the Asthi Kalash Yatra of former Prime Minister Late Atal Bihari Vajpayee at Bhai Vir Singh Marg near Gole Market in New Delhi. (Sonu Mehta / HT Photo)

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India news in pictures -- a roundup of today’s top news across the country from tennis players Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan winning gold at the Asian Games 2018 to the Enforcement Directorate again questioning former Finance Minister P Chidambaram in the Aircel-Maxis money laundering case.